erase
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“Nothing will erase the times we shared or the place she had in our lives,” he wrote in the Instagram caption.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Artificial intelligence agents developed by OpenAI tried to erase traces of their activity after gaining unauthorized access to government websites, according to a report published Thursday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Never say never, but I don’t think the effort to erase my time as CEO is very consistent with me wanting to go back on “It’s a Small World.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
None of this will erase the clash of interests at the core of the U.S.-China relationship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
I erase my response and tear a piece of paper from my binder.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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But more than that, it obscures the reality and erases the history of transgender lives by diminishing the significant time, money, and effort many transgender people spend to align their body with their sex.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
The three singers at least remember the name of the “Men in Black” device that erases your memory: The Neuralyzer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026
At about 180 million years old, they formed during a time when animals were actively disturbing the seafloor worldwide, which normally erases delicate microbial textures.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2026
The gain erases a move lower that followed a post by President Donald Trump saying he was directing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy $200 billion of mortgage-backed securities earlier this month.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
The faceless quality of the Net erases the problems geeks face in the "real" world of image, fashion, communication skills, etc.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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On Monday, diesel futures in New York were little changed from Friday’s close and had erased all but a penny of the after-hours decline sparked by Trump’s social-media post announcing the deal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
The agent is fictional, the heroes were erased, and just about the only thing I found factual was the re-creation of Kaczynski’s mailbox.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Amnesty International's Felix Jakens told the players to give proper thought to playing in a tournament organised by a cricket board from a country which has "erased women and girls from public life".
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
“Seeing my identity changed and being left out of the picture made me feel, in a way, silenced and erased from a representation that was supposed to include me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Could Camille have permanently erased all those good memories from her brain?
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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She is frustrated that “the Jewish people, in the name of rebuilding and showing that we are strong, are erasing our own history and the stuff that the world needs to see.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The Green Bay Packers also triumphed in overtime by erasing a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter against the New York Jets to win 20-17 - and snap a six-game losing streak.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Henry Ford dreamed of erasing the boundary between farm and factory.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
This corner of Brooklyn is moving on to the next wave of gentrification: They’re culturally gentrifying the original gentrifiers, erasing the identity of precariously employed DJs who are experimenting with polyamory and microbangs.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
“The lines and boxes are too straight, and I thought you’d join me in erasing some of them.”
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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